the declarer - South Australian Bridge Association

THE DECLARER
Juneg 2013
Winners Shine at the Powerhouse Pairs
SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN
BRIDGE
ASSOCIATIONN
INSIDE THIS
ISSUE:
Back Office News
2
Member Profile
3
The Weird, Wacky &
Wonderful by Ray
Dohnt
6
Intro to Teams
Barb Travis
10
Bidding Forum
13
Monthly Winners
15
Sunday
Bridge
continues
Every
Sunday @
1pm.
Come and join
the FUN.
The club’s Sunday Birthday Party was another excellent afternoon and another successful fundraising activity. Angela Grimaldi (right) swapped her
Concierge hat to ensure that, with the help of other members of the fundraising committee, the afternoon was well catered. The session was directed by Julie Arciuolo (left) who is one of our more recent additions to the
directing staff. And of course no birthday party is complete without singing Happy Birthday. Wendy Hopkins provided a great rendition of Marilyn
Monroe’s “Happy Birthday Mr President”.
This must have been a sign of things to come, as the club’s president Peter
Chan won the (EW) direction with Helene Maddern. The NS winners were
Helga Corbett and Val Churchill.
Coming Events - June
Monday PM - Vin & Margart Moriarty Pairs
Thursday PM - State Teams Phase 1 starting 20th June
Trading Table - 23rd to 29th June
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lounge, main hall (pin boards) through to the
annex (+ book shelves) and kitchen
Back Office News
There have been a number of questions with regard
to the role of the Concierge and Angela Grimaldi has
written the following article to help clarify any
questions. Of course, the Concierge and other staff
are always available to discuss any issues that
members may have.
UP FRONT REPORT
The role of the Concierge was an advertised position
inviting applicants to submit resumes. With over 900
members, the role was deemed necessary to help
make SABA “a friendly place” to play (this is part of
the club’s Mission Statement). I officially
commenced this role on 5th November 2012. Di
Fallon and Helen Dennis were also appointed as
support. My employment is based on casual rates
for an average of 5 hours per week with Di and
Helen also providing an hour per week each..
The Concierge/ombudsmen/people are responsible
for FRONT OF HOUSE DUTIES.
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PLUS some tasks that were “Unforeseen” when the
role commenced
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Finding and returning lost property
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Handing out the occasional band aid
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Shoulder massages to relieve tension ( only
one so far!!!)
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Cups of tea, appropriate chairs, cushions and
table placements
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Untangling glasses from open knit tops!
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Finding substitute glasses (“I’ve left mine at
home”)
We three Concierges are committed to do everything
within our power to help make SABA the most
welcoming and successful bridge club in Australia.
In addition to “paid employment” I am also the
(volunteer ) Chair of the Fund Raising Committee,
Greeting and welcoming all members
with Di and Helen also assisting along with other
Assisting visitors, new members and beginners club members.
in classes
I am so pleased to be the Concierge and a member of
SABA, and I enjoy the interaction with members
Supporting learners through classes into
immensely
supervised, then graded sessions, ensuring
appropriate table etiquette is understood and
practiced
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Getting to know all players by name and
character
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Listening, understanding and attending to
issues
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Assisting and supporting managers, directors
and other staff
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Operating a car pooling system
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Organising short and long term partnerships
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Sorting and allocating member number tags
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Ordering and issuing new name badges
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Clerical duties, including documentation, use
of Pianola and updating members with current
information
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Maintaining a presentable, tidy, organised,
welcoming impression from entry foyer,
Angela Grimaldi
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Member Profile
Many members enjoyed our first player profile and
this week we are featuring Pam Wearne. This is
Pam’s story as told by Pam.
During a trip to England, my husband suffered a
massive stroke. Ten years into being a full time
carer it was suggested to me that learning to play
bridge would be a diversion if my husband was to
pass away. As carers all know, remembering your
own name becomes a problem
SABA became a terrifying experience not having
any prior knowledge of cards, let alone bridge. The
world of suits had never invaded my psyche. Week
after week I implored God “please don’t let me get
one good card”. Poor David Lusk had no idea of the
“dumb-dumb” in his class.
After two more years Howard died and I was still
struggling with the bridge basics. Wonderful
partners put up with last placings in exchange for a
few laughs. I am so very grateful to be a club
member; bring on Mondays and Fridays!
As a full time carer, resignation from Annersley
College, where I was a staff member for 20 years as
a tennis teacher and coach, was essential and all
forms of tennis were cancelled.
A career in tennis had been consuming for me. It
took all forms, from competing in Victoria where I
grew up and had a No 1 ranking, to moving to South
Australia and achieving a similar result as well as
competing overseas in Italy and Switzerland.
The golden years in Australian tennis was a
glamorous time. Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor,
Mervyn Rose, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall won the
Davis Cup for Australia with monotonous regularity
and the was plenty of money in the LTAA [Lawn
Tennis Association of Australia] pockets.
Maureen “Little Mo” Connolly, Julie Sampson,
Doris Hart and Louise Brough toured Australia and
we juniors had great role models.
Dame Pattie and Sir Robert Menzies attended the
Australian Open at Kooyong and we met them
during afternoon tea sessions. Sir Norman and
Dame Mabel Brooks invited top tennis players and
two juniors to their seaside home each Sunday and
that experience, with lunch served on sparkling
silver trays (all trophies), was unforgettable.
Margaret Court (nee Smith) played in our Victorian
pennants team and exhibitions with “Little Mo”
around the country areas were also great
experiences.
Tennis was very good to me, but I am most proud of
the progress made for carers during my fourteen
years as a carer. Fighting in the form of speaking to
professional groups and making known to whoever
would listen had the effect of making the needs of
the carer just as important as the patient.
I guess every life is special to the owner.
“The most valuable treasures are your memories”
Nine Letter Words
How many words of 4 letters or more can you find in
this puzzle. All words must contain the letter G
These puzzles are generated from a computer
program (scrabble word finder) and I can’t guarantee
the correctness of all words. This week will keep
you busy….. 182 words
120 words
Good
140 words
Very Good
182 words
Perfect (You must have taken a peek
at the answers!!)
Solution on Page 11
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Membership Target
Final 2012 Membership
2013 Target
Current Membership
1st June 2012
907
935
902
817
With good class numbers, our target of 935
members at the end of the year looks well within
As most members are aware, the club now has solar reach..
power to help reduce rising electricity costs. The
Fund Raising News
company which installed the system (Ecostar
Environmental Solutions) would like to offer SABA As I mentioned in “Back Office
News”, April was a fantastic
members a discount to have solar power at their
month. Please continue to
own homes They will also be sponsoring a column
support these functions as all
in the Declarer, where members can ask questions
money raised through fund
about solar power, or for that matter, any other eco
friendly systems. Simply email me at the club and I raising goes directly into
will pass on your queries which will be answered in improving amenities for
members.May saw another $1800
the following month’s newsletter. Already have
raised, bringing the total so far
solar power, but aren’t sure if your system is
this financial year (ending 30th
performing properly? Sharon, from Ecostar will
September) to over $12,000.
happily answer those questions as well.
SABA’s solar power monitoring system is now
connected to the world wide web, for all to see.
Type in sunnyportal.com
2.
Click on the “Publicly Available Plants”
3.
Type in saba and select Australia
4.
Click on SABA Adelaide
The website has lots of information, including the
reduction in of carbon emissions and, of course, the
savings in terms of $$$.
1.
Declarer Articles Needed
I am always looking for more articles for the
Declarer.
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Interesting things that happened at the
table
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Suggestions of topics that would interest
members
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Funny stories or cartoons to help fill the
gaps
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Old bridge memorabilia
You don’t have to be Ernest Hemmingway or
Jane Austen. Any topic which interests you
will probably interest others.
Deadlines for Declarer topics are generally
about a week before the end of the month.
Sunday Bridge @ SABA
EVERY Sunday @ 1pm
Bring a plate for afternoon tea
Come and join the fun of a
friendly afternoon of bridge
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Weird , Wacky , and Wonderful.......by Ray Dohnt.
About twenty years ago, The Sydney Daily
Telegraph was faced with the problem of no
headline story for the next day. The editor, in his
wisdom, decided to invent a story. Not lie, just
invent. Their headline read as follows; "Sydney
Harbour Bridge Not To Be Pulled Down." Bold as
brass. Front Page. The full story had all sorts of
denials from all sorts of authorities. That day, the
paper had it's second biggest sale of newspapers in
history. Second only to the shooting of the Pope. It
was weird, wacky and wonderful. In my sixty years,
we have seen many strange events find their way
onto the front pages. Most do not qualify as real
news stories. The following are my top ten of
W.W.W. !!!!
1...The Jean Shrimpton fiasco of 1965. At the time
she was the highest paid model in the world. On
Derby Day at Flemington she strutted her stuff. In
celebrating the newly found generation gap, she
wore no hat, no gloves, no stockings and the shortest
dress ever seen. A whole two inches above the knee.
What a furore. What a headline. What a memory.
Judd on Brownlow night. What a dress. Red, gravity
defying and split from toe to neck. Not that I ever
noticed of course.
7...Any Home party gone Wrong. Houses trashed,
drunken youths, drug overdoses, street violence and
general mayhem. And that all occurs before the
trouble starts. Nothing has changed in 2,000 years,
and I truly doubt, nothing ever will.
8...Any headline with Lara Bingle in it. Born in
1987, this fashion model/socialite has the uncanny
ability to live up to her surname. In more ways than
you could imagine. Living proof that being a nobody
in this modern world is almost a ticket to stardom if
handled correctly."Where the bloody hell is
everybody?" They have turned the light off and left.
Bingle has bungled again & again and again.....
9...Kyle Sandilands. In a single word, "Yuk". Not
my favourite person. Can say - will say - and does
say anything that comes into his head. He has a lot
of space available for those things to come into. A
living, walking headline, who has sent most people
straight to a dictionary to look up the word
misogynist. Born in 1971, surely proof enough that it
was indeed a very poor year.
2...Don Dunstan's pink shorts of 1972. Front page
showed him striding into parliament wearing deep
pink, tight flannel shorts. Very pink. Very short. The 10...The best (or worst) till last. Bigger than
whole world had changed. Adelaide was now trendy. Watergate. More daring than Gypsy Rose Lee. In
1971, Sonia McMahon (wife of our Prime Minister)
3...The Rundle Mall Balls. First appeared ion 1977. wowed and scandalised the White House, wearing a
Bold, brassy and well, ballsy. Over the years they
dress with splits up both sides to her armpits.
have probably held front page at least ten times. Real Richard Nixon lost control, and so did the world
stories are clearly in short supply.
press. The Vietnam war disappeared from our front
pages for a whole two days.
4...Malcolm Fraser loses his pants. In 1986, in
downtown Memphis, in a rather seady hotel foyer,
So, this leads us to Bridge quandaries. All of these
Mr Fraser was found dazed and confused. Not to
have either occurred at my table, or within earshot.
mention pant-less. He was unsure of his
No names, no packdrill. Only the guilty remain
whereabouts, and even less sure of his nether
anonymous.
regions. Was it a hoax? Who knows, and who
1...Over a bid of 7-NT, one very determined
cares??
opponent wanted to bid 8-clubs. As a sacrifice. He
5...Sarah Fergusson gets a real toe sucking. The then could not -believe that the Director would not allow
estranged Duchess of York, was filmed by the Daily it. His protest was strong and loud. The 7-NT made.
Mirror having her toe nail polish removed by an ever
2...Over 6-S doubled and redoubled, one player
eager gentleman on a sunny day in 1992. How and
wanted to treble. Again, disallowed. One off.
why that makes the headlines, is anyones guess.
3...As the lead was being made, down came two
6...Red Carpet Disasters (or dare I say it) Delights.
My personal favourite is Brynne Edelsten. Bold, up dummies. The real one and the other opponent.
Result - every card became exposed and played at
front and full of class. She is proud of her curves,
and willing to place her two best features in front of declarer's discression. There were overtricks.
any camera. A delightful disaster awaits her every
move. What more could a mere male ask for?
However, she was totally outshone by one Rebecca
4...Almost in sync, three people lead a card. It was
twenty five years ago. It was late at night.. It was
quite funny. Can't remember the outcome.
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5...My personal favourite. The entire game was
played without a dummy. Not once, but twice!! Me
thinks there may have been four dummies at that
table.
6...Three misleads - three penalty cards - all from
the same player. He claimed that the Director confused him. On that, the jury is still out.
7...This happened at my table. Declarer bid and
played with 15 cards. The two opponents had 12
cards each. No one notice untill we came down to
all holding 2 - 3 - 2 - 5 cards. Ooops !! No wonder
my partner kept bidding. The Director was not happy.
8...Another favourite. I may have bid with one
point. My partner may have bid and played 1-NT.
Not doubled. He may have made zero tricks. Down
seven. We may have got a top board for it, but my
partner was still berating me an hour later. I have
almost stopped bidding with one point.
9...Apparently, it happens a lot. We all play hands
where one person is using the cards from a previous
board. It can, and does lead to much confusion. Especially for the Director.
10...The best of all. It was late. About 11.00 PM.
Last hand of the night. My partner is in a dubious 6spade contract. I can't remember who put her there.
Because she thinks she is missing the ace of trumps,
decides to cross ruff the entire hand. The only way
the slam can make. With three spades finally left in
dummy, the opponents give in and the claim verified. Even though my partner appears to be holding
only two cards. It is late. We are all tired. No one
argues. We go home. On the stroke of midnight, I
get a phone call. She has found the ace of spades in
her handbag. It is the only time a slam has been
played and the ace of trumps failed to take a trick.
Long live weird, wacky and wonderful........
Good Bridging.
SABA Bridge-on-Torrens
SABA Bridge-on-Torrens is starting to build a
following and is very popular with those who have
experienced what is a friendly, and social
afternoon of bridge. A reminder that Bridge-onTorrens continues every Monday afternoon at the
Walkerville Bowling Club
(Cnr Smith and Church Streets, Walkerville)
Time
1pm to 4.30pm
Director
Darryl Couzner
Tutor
Ray Dohnt
Bridge-on-Torrens is a great session which
caters more to the newer and intermediate
players.
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The Community Lottery is a self help scheme which,
since 1984, has distributed almost $10 million to not
-for-profit sporting clubs, schools and pre-schools,
community groups and charitable organisations in
South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Last year, the Community Lottery returned a record
$1,563,342 to 840 participating not-for-profit
organisations in South Australia, Victoria and the
Northern Territory (and in 2013 the ACT). SABA
is delighted to be able to participate in the lottery
again in 2013. While most tickets will be sold at
SABA, it is also possible to purchase tickets online,
with 100% of such purchases being directed back to
us (provided that you make us your nominated
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The lottery is a very good way for us to raise funds:
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INTRODUCTION TO TEAMS
At MATCHPOINT PAIRS you are simply
competing with all the other pairs in your direction.
At TEAMS you are working together with teammates, and only competing with the opposing team’s
pair sitting in your direction. You do a direct
comparison of ‘your’ result on a given hand with
your team-mates’s result on the same hand,
converting the total difference (gain, loss or zero)
into International Match Points (IMPs).
At PAIRS each hand has equal importance, since
each hand scores from a ‘top’ to a ‘bottom.
At TEAMS each hand starts off being equally
important, but some are clearly going to be ‘flat’
whereas others offer opportunities for large gains or
losses.
The conversion of the difference between scores at
each table into IMPs means that some hands have
much more importance, as you will see below.
PLAY:
At PAIRS you try to maximise your score when you
play the hand.
If everyone else will be in your contract, you may
need to take a risky finesse for a good score (versus
average). When the finesse works you get a top,
when it fails you get a bottom.
At TEAMS the main objective is to make your
contract.
Should you lose an overtrick you only risk 1 IMP.
Should you lose your contract you risk 5+ IMPs
(part-score) or 10+ IMPs (game). If the opponents
haven’t bid to your contract your risk factor is even
higher. [Of course, if trying for the overtrick is
totally safe, do so.]
DEFENCE:
Defence is the trickiest part of PAIRS play.
Overtricks hurt your side. Your objective is to
minimise the opponents’ score (or maximise yours).
At TEAMS the main objective in defence is to
defeat their contract. Should you give away an
overtrick you just lose an extra 1 IMP. Should you
defeat their contract you gain 5+ IMPs (part-score)
or 10+ IMPs (game).
CHOICE OF CONTRACT/SAFETY OF
CONTRACT:
At PAIRS you often try for the highest scoring
contract (3NT instead of 4-Major or 5-minor),
even if there is risk’ involved.
At TEAMS you aim for the SAFEST CONTRACT
rather than the highest scoring contract. This even
allows you to stop at 5-minor – if you wanted to
investigate slam in a minor and went past 3NT!
RE-OPENING (Pushing the opponents around):
At PAIRS you may well re-open (balance) on
relatively modest values – 40% of the time it will
make no difference, 40% of the time you will do
well, 20% of the time you will pay a large penalty.
However, that means
that you come out ahead (you only ‘lose’ 20% of the
time). Simple ‘top’ versus ‘bottom’ stuff.
At TEAMS however, re-opening/balancing, needs
more caution. The 20% of the time when you ‘lose’
will now cost heavily in IMPs. Let’s imagine you
get doubled and lose a large penalty (500 or 800)
against their part-score. Suddenly you are losing 9+
IMPs (instead of having a flat board or ‘just a
bottom’). In Teams you have to weigh the amount
of gain or loss at risk (rather than ‘frequency’ of
gain/loss).
Whether you may push them into a game they
hadn’t bid also becomes an issue.
BIDDING GAMES AND SLAMS:
At TEAMS the odds for bidding games and slams
change. It is VITAL to bid your games, especially
vulnerable games. It is also VERY IMPORTANT
to bid slams, vulnerable slams in particular. This is
because of the difference in the total scores, which
convert to IMPs.
A hand that helps show the difference between
teams and pairs is provided on the next page.
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Here is an example hand to demonstrate the
difference between Pairs and Teams:
KJxxx
AJ10
xxx
Kx
AQ10xx
Xx
AKx
Qxx
You are playing 4S and the DQ is led.
Playing Pairs you want to maximise your number of winners. You draw trumps ending in hand, and then
lead a heart towards dummy’s AJ10, finessing the 10. Playing on hearts offers you a chance to double finesse for two tricks, and a discard for your diamond loser. Playing on clubs creates a winner but you have
no discard opportunity.
East wins the HK and returns a diamond. You win and try the heart finesse again. If it wins you have 11
tricks. If it loses you have 9 tricks (2 heart losers, 1 diamond loser, 1 club loser). However, at Pairs you
will take this ‘risk’ because 10 tricks is “normal” and you want to score better than the field.
You only take these risks when your contract is normal though, because you are risking an average score
for a top or bottom. If you are in a good contract that others are unlikely to reach, you do not take such
risks.
However, at teams, it would be a disaster to go down in 4S when you have 10 top tricks. You may well try
one heart finesse (in case both the HK and HQ are onside) but you would not risk the contract. Going down
in a ‘normal’ game that is made at the other table would cost you 10 IMPs (not vulnerable) or 12 IMPs
(vulnerable). Losing one little overtrick only costs 1 IMP which is negligible given the risk involved.
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dinge, dirge, garni, gelid, genic, glace, glade, glair, gland, glare, glean, glide, gnarl, grace, grade, grail,
grain, grand, gride, grind, ingle, lager, large, liang, ligan, liger, linga, raged, range, regal, regna, reign,
renig, ridge, aged, ager, agin, cage, clag, crag, ding, drag, dreg, egad, egal, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gale,
gane, gear, geld, gied, gien, gild, gird, girl, girn, glad, gled, glen, glia, gnar, grad, gran, grid, grin, lang,
ling, rage, ragi, rang, ring,
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BBRIDGE
FOR SCHOOLS
IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS WHILE HAVING FUN AND
MAKING NEW FRIENDS
BY LEARNING TO PLAY BRIDGE AT THE
JULY VACATION CLASSES
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRIDGE ASSOCIATION
243 Young St Unley
8 – 11th JULY MON – THURS 10.30 -1.30
CONTACT TONY LUSK 0415 510 731 or SABA 8373 3995
THE DECLARER PAGE 13
BIDDING FORUM
What do you bid or lead on the following hands?
East
1♠
P
South
1♦
2♣
West
P
P
You hold, N-S VUL, PAIRS
♠ Q6
♥ K98
♦ 75
♣ AKJ754
♠ KJ5
♥ Q52
♦ QJ983
♣ 74
South
X
West
P
YOUR BID_____
You hold, NIL VUL, PAIRS
♠ KQ5
♥2
♦ KQJ10
♣ KJ653
East
South
West
1♦
?
YOUR BID _____
You hold, NOT VUL VS VUL, TEAMS :
♠ 75
♥ A4
♦ QJ1098654
♣Q
North
East
P
P
South
1♥
P
West
1NT*
* = 16 -19 and heart stopper(s)
YOUR LEAD: ___
?
North
West
What would you lead from this holding against
YOUR BID_____
East
3♥
South
YOUR BID _____
?
North
East
?
You hold, NIL VUL, PAIRS:
♠ A973
♥ A82
♦ -♣ J987642
North
North
Solutions on Page 14
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CALLING ALL JUNIOR PLAYERS
YOUTH BRIDGE WORKSHOP
WHEN SATURDAY 6th of July 12.30 PM
Then every 1st Saturday of the month
WHERE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRIDGE ASSOCIATION
243 YOUNG ST UNLEY
We will be catering for all levels including introductory
lessons for beginners
CONTACT TONY LUSK ON 0415 510 731
or SABA on 8373 3995
BIDDING FORUM SOLUTIONS
HAND 1
10 2♥ Forth suit forcing
9 3♥ Cue bid agreeing the last bid suit (clubs)
7 4♣ Many use this as KEY CARD, but not so
effective with a void in your hand. Others use it as
forcing and invite a cue bid.
5 5♣ A little cowardly given the hand has so
many first round controls
-1 PASS!!!!!
HAND 2
10 3NT You are worth game, have a long suit to
run and a heart stopper. What else do you need???
7 PASS Converting the double to penalties
6 5♣
Game may well make, but your K♥ is not
well placed.
3 4♣
More iron in the diet needed. You could
bid this on Kxxxxx and nothing else!
HAND 3
10 2♣ It’s pairs so you have to compete. Pass at
teams would be fine.
7 X
A little awkward if pard bids 2♥ as you
then have to bid 3♣ which sounds like 16+ HCPs.
But at least you are competing.
6 1NT A little off shape but you take up space,
they might ‘lose’ the heart suit or partner may have
five/stopper(s). Worse things happen at sea!!!
4 PASS Have you considered CANASTA
HAND 4
10 4♦ The rule of two and three dictates you bid
4♦ on this.
8 5♦ A little pushy but it raises the stakes if they
are strong.
4 3♦ Hardly worth the effort and not very
destructive.
HAND 5
10 2♥ You never lose if you lead partner’s bid
suit!
10 Q♦ This suit is so good it is worth a go in
spite of your heart holding.
7 Q♥ This looks like a doubleton and may open
partner to a finessing situation if declarer holds
AK10
5 8♦ Fourth highest but partner will probably see
it as top of nothing
2 7♣ Did you forget that partner bid 1♥???
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MONTHLY WINNERS
MONDAY AM.
1st
Rosie Vostatek & Carolyn Toh
2nd
Trudy Hodge & Jan Boyce
3rd
Mary Wildy & Marie Wait
4th
John & Margaret Edwards
5th
Bob Schaeffer & Jan McCarthy
6th
Cathie Boros & Sally Bates
7th
Sandra Penny-Dimri & Jackie Hahn
MONDAY AM TEAMS
=1st
Terry Driver, Margaret Banks, David
Schofield & Chris Morley
=1st
Sue Bufton, Helga Corbett, David & Janet
Munro
3rd
Trish Maroney, Helen Thomas, Junice
Nesbitt & Maureen Wilson
BRIDGE-on-TORRENS
1st
Malcom & Julie Knowles
BRIDGE-on-TORRENS SUPERVISED
1st
Hubert Van Der Pennen & Ria Swart
PAX LUSK PAIRS
1st
John Zollo & Russel Harms
2nd
Anne Harris & Rosemary Grund
3rd
Warren Neill & Ann Cottrell
MONDAY PM SUPERVISED
1st
Peter & Sue Gilchrist
2nd
Graeme Martin & Ian Watson
MONDAY PM INTERMEDIATE
1st
Ceda Nikolic & Robert Martin
2nd
Des Ward & Arlene Beveridge
TUESDAY AM
1st
Eve Shillito & Lindsay Wills
2nd
Bill Mann & Len Bilney
3rd
Paddy Naylor & Neil Graham
4th
Janet Munro & Val Churchill
TUESDAY PM
1st
Marlene Haslam & Reg Elborough
2nd
Maurice Elmendorp & Michael Ward
3rd
Eve Shillito & Lindsay Wills
4th
Helen Rollond & Rebecca Poon
5th
Evelyn Robertson & Enid Paech
6th
John Rutherford & Tony Michailov
KATH GEORGE PAIRS
1st
John Zollo & Peter Chan
2nd
Justin Williams & Jeff Travis
3rd
Kay Miki & Val Mattsson
4th
Jackie Ward & Bronny Colmer
WEDNESDAY PM
1st
David Anderson & Sharmini Hoole
2nd
Rod Moritz & Sonia Bromley
WEDNESDAY AM SUPERVISED
1st
Jennifer Smith & Susan Currie
2nd
Judy Errey & Patricia Sharpe
THURSDAY AM
1st
Jo Zerk & Ron Postlethwaite
2nd
Fay Goudie & Norma Amey
3rd
Roger Waters & Dennis Reynolds
4th
Helen & Robert Fleet
5th
Lexie Hutchison & Win Einthal
6th
Eve Shillito & Lindsay Wills
THURSDAY AM TEAMS
1st
Jill Schuster, Geoff Hannaford, Des Geary &
Sue Havey
2nd
Paddy Naylor, Darryl Couzner, Bernadine
Lynch & Neil Graham
3rd
Janet Munro, Jeni Fricker, Gamini
Amerasinghe & Rebecca Poon
FRIDAY AM
1st
Anthony & David Lusk
2nd
Warren Neill & Andrew Eddie
3rd
Meredith Coleman & Carolyn Toh
4th
Gary Deaton & Arnold Volframs
5th
Ceda Nikolic & Robert Martin
FRIDAY PM
1st
Attilio De Luca & Sue Emerson
2nd
John & Judy Zollo
SATURDAY AM
1st
Yvette Bolaffi & John Pearson
2nd
Christine Swaine & Jenny Goble
Funnies Page
THE DECLARER PAGE 16
Two blondes walk into a bar and announce free drinks for everyone.
“What’s the big occasion?” asks the bartender
“We just finished a jigsaw puzzle in only 4 months” announces the
first blonde.
“That doesn’t seem such a big deal” comments the bartender.
“Oh yes” said the second blonde, “On the box it said 2 - 4 years!”
Happy Bridging